Acknowledgments

Many people have shaped this book. I wish to thank Marjorie Levinson, Adela Pinch, and Yopie Prins for giving it lift and emphasis, and Karl Eric Longstreth for unrolling the maps. I am grateful for the readings, conversations, and comments of Eyal Amiran, Timothy Bahti, Ian Balfour, Thora Brylowe, Kieran Cannon, Hannah Carlson, and Matthew H. Edney; Kalli Federhofer, Anne-Lise François, Michael Gamer, Stephen Gill, Nicholas Halmi, Meredith Martin, and Dahlia Porter; Sarah Riggs, Zak Sitter, Yasmin Solomonescu, Rei Terada, Judith Thompson, Yofi Tirosh, and Valerie Traub. They have all made their mark. The opportunity, in the midst of this project, to write collaboratively on European print culture with an impressive group of scholars led by Andrew Piper, Tom Mole, and Jon Sachs was enlightening and a pleasure. The generosity of Paul F. Betz, Jeff Cowton, Fitz Gitler, and Jerry Singerman—with needful texts, technology, and time—has been critical, as has the camaraderie of colleagues at Cincinnati, including Beth Ash, Don Bogen, Jana Braziel, John Drury, Jenn Glaser, Jon Kamholtz, Laura Micciche, Arnie Miller, Maura O’Connor, Lee Person, Jay Twomey, Gary Weissman, Barbara Wenner, and Elissa Yancey. Tim Fulford has helped to land the typographical plane.

Research and writing were supported by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. Parts of Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 were derived from the following articles: “Prose Mesurée in the Lakes Tour and Guide: Quoting and Recalibrating English Blank Verse,” European Romantic Review 20.2 (2009), 227–36; “The Map at the Limits of His Paper: A Cartographic Reading of The Prelude, Book 6,” Studies in Romanticism 49.3 (2010), 375–404; “Topographical Measures: Wordsworth’s and Crosthwaite’s Lines on the Lake District,” Romanticism 16.1 (2010), 72–93; “Measuring Distance, Pointing Address: The Textual Geography of the ‘Poem to Coleridge’ and ‘To W. Wordsworth,’” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 61 (November 12, 2013). I thank the editors as well as the Trustees of Boston University and Edinburgh University Press.

I am grateful to the following individuals and institutions for permission to reproduce images from their collections: Paul F. Betz; the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford; the Trustees of the British Museum; the Board of the British Library; the John Hay Library, Brown University Library; the William L. Clements Library and the Map Library, University of Michigan; the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.